PENSACOLA, Fla. — A man apparently shot himself by accident while showing Florida bar customers his gun.
The Pensacola News Journal reported the man was displaying his gun Thursday night and made a quick motion as if putting it into a pretend holster below his shoulder.
When he did, the gun discharged and a bullet hit the man’s torso.
The bar manager showed the newspaper video of the incident.
"I don't know if he was pretending to be a badass or something," the bar's manager Warren Sonnen told the journal. "But from what I can tell, it was completely by accident."
The man quickly left and checked himself into a hospital. Police contacted him and were determining whether to file charges.
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